ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 19th of May WELCOME! SAINT PETER CELESTINE, POPE AND CONFESSOR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index (A.D. 1296.) Humility raised this saint above the world, and preserved his soul free from its poison, both amidst its flatteries and under its frowns. He was born in Apulia about the year 1221. His parents were very virtuous and charitable to the poor to the uttermost of their abilities. After his father’s death, his mother, though she had eleven other sons, seeing his extraordinary inclination to piety, provided him with a literary education. ETERNITY IS AT STAKE His progress gave his friends great expectations; but he always considered that he had only one affair in this world, and that an affair of infinite importance, the salvation of his soul: that no security can be too great where an eternity is at stake: moreover, that the way to life is strait, the account which we are to give of all our actions and thoughts most rigoro...